I know all about HACMP on AIX, unfortunately, Netview is on a SUN
platform...
DOH !

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Steve deSouza wrote:

>      We want to get some sort of backup mechanism where if the primary nv
> server goes down, the secondary will kick in.

You can do this if you are running your servers on AIX.  AIX has a
component
called HACMP that will allow you to define resources (like IP addresses,
and
filesystems) that fail over to a backup machine.  You will have to run a
custom takeover script when the machine fails over, but it is doable.


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